‘Cultural Marxism’ is a conspiracy theory for our time

By Alexander Howard

Cultural Marxism – sometimes referred to as the “Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory” – has become a staple of contemporary right-wing discourse. In the United States, politicians, including Pete Hegseth and Ted Cruz, have employed the term to explain social changes they regard as harmful or destabilising. Similar claims have been made in Latin America, where leaders like Javier Milei and Jair Bolsonaro have warned of what they regard as its pernicious influence.

The theory holds that the Frankfurt School, having concluded that capitalism was unlikely to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions any time soon, developed a new strategy for communist subversion while living in America during the 1930s and 1940s, having fled from Nazi Germany in fear of their lives.

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